What damage type are my minion's skills?

General
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I’m wondering how you can determine the damage type (fire, phys, necrotic, etc.) of a minion’s skills? There is no in-game way of checking that I know of (unlike your own skills which have tags).

This comes up for things like this affix on the huge idol (primalist): Critical Strike Chance with Lightning Skills for You and Your Minions

For example, take Summon Wolf. It’s regular damage type is physical. But what if I take the storm jaws node? Would it now also count as lightning and work with the totem? What about if I didn’t have storm jaws, but had Howl of the West Wind. When I proc the last affix on it, would my wolve’s attack be lightning for the duration?

Thanks!

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Summon Wolf Tags

But minions such as Wolves have tags too.
Summon Wolf has the Physical Tag, and when you get Storm Jaws, it also gains the lightning tag.
Theres also the “chance for wolves to retaliate with Lightning Strike when hit” on that helmet, and the “chance for wolves to retaliate with Storm Bolt when hit” on the node before Storm Jaws, “Storm Caller’s Reprisal”… Both should count as minion lightning skills for getting affected by that specific idol.

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Thanks. I didn’t know if it got the lightning tag from the node before Storm Jaws, or Storm Jaws itself.

So we’re sure that the wolf’s basic attack is a “lightning skill” once we get Storm Jaws?

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It should be.
Primal wolf. Minion Skills - melee attack. (From Letools https://www.lastepochtools.com/minions/primal_wolf). So basic wolf’s bite is a minion skill

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Thank you!